Texans coach Gary Kubiak said the sense of urgency isn’t any different for his team this season as it is any other season.

“I have the same sense of urgency every year,” Kubiak said.

As the team completed its ninth session of organized team activities at Methodist Training Center, Kubiak did want to see more urgency out of his group than he did on Wednesday. The team went without helmets for the first time during OTAs and Kubiak was not pleased with what he saw.

“I took their helmets off today and gave them a bone, so to speak and they didn’t respond to it,” Kubiak said. “Last year’s team responded to it very well. This year’s team’s first chance wasn’t very good. I told them I’ll give them one more chance tomorrow or there won’t be any more of those days.”

Kubiak said the team can’t dwell on what it accomplished last season.

“2011 is over,” he said. “It’s 2012 and we’ve got a lot of work to do and our expectations as a football team stay the same all the time.”